James Solano is a self taught Los Angeles based photographer who has been shooting away, developing his own film and printing in his own garage/darkroom for over 10 years.

Solano has no art degrees, no art school education, no type of apprenticeship training & he prefers to keep it that way.

He has a love/RAGING HATE relationship with digital photography so he prefers shooting with film... he can’t understand the logic in shooting 500+ images of the same subject, and with the influx of "glitz & glam" photographers that have oversaturated the photography “scene” over the years Solano has decided to take a minimalistic DIY approach when it comes to his photography.